I'd be also interested to hear in a post below how many fatal shark attacks there have been within this distance of the location you typically dive within the three years?
Foxfish, I'm curious.
I just want to step back from the debate a second and ask you a question. Shark attacks are not and never have been a major risk for divers. World wide there have only been about 220 shark attacks on divers of all sorts over the last hundred years or so and only a handful of attacks on divers using modern scuba gear. Once you're in the water, the boat you're diving from forms a MUCH higher risk to you as a diver than any shark...and yet you seem to be inordinately concerned about it.
What happened that caused you to become so concerned? I'm genuinely curious.
R..
P.S. To answer your question, in my local area there has never been a shark attack on a scuba diver.